High-energy events scale
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event                       ~Joules  ~tons of TNT
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big lightning bolt           10^10    1
1st nuke TNT test            10^12    100
1st nuke (Trinity)           10^14    19k
Nagasaki (Fat Man)           10^14    21k
1st hydrogen bomb (Mike)     10^16    10M
Tunguska meteoroid           10^17    20M
largest nuke (Tsar)          10^17    50M
Krakatoa eruption 1883       10^18    200M
daily world comsumes (2008)  10^18    300M
earthquake 9.0 Richter       10^18    474M
Tambora eruption 1815        10^19    1G
nuclear winter               10^19    10G
world's nuclear arsenal      10^20    20G
Lake Toba volcano explosion  10^20    100G
Yellowstone caldera formed   10^21    1T
big asteroid (K-T) impact    10^23    100T
...
mass-energy of Earth         10^42
Sun light (385 YW, 1E10 yr)  10^44
gamma ray burst (1E19 Suns)  10^44
supernova explosion          10^44
hypernova explosion          10^46
mass-energy of Sun           10^47
mass-energy of galaxy        10^59
mass-energy of universe      10^69

note: 1 ton of TNT equivalent is equal to 4.18 × 10^9 joules
note: last update on 2011-03-16


author: Jan Skalicky